Incumbent Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades topped the ballot in today’s first round election, winning 35.5 per cent of the votes on a much-reduced turnout. The conservative former leader of Democratic Rally (DISY) will be joined in the run-off on Sunday 4 February by Stavros Malas, an independent backed by the island’s communist party, AKEL, who […]
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Election result: Czech Presidency 2018, 2nd round
Former Social Democrat Prime Minister Milos Zeman narrowly held off a strong challenge from independent centrist Jiri Drahos to retain the Czech Republic’s Presidency in today’s run-off round. Zeman won his second term by just under three percentage points and by only 152,000 votes out of nearly 5.57 million cast – some 51.4 per cent […]
Election result: Czech Presidency 2018, 1st round
Incumbent Milos Zeman won the first round of the Czech Presidential election today as predicted, but failed to reach the 50 per cent score required to avoid a run-off. With 38.6 per cent of the vote, the veteran Social Democrat advanced considerably on his 2013 first round score of 24.2 per cent, and was placed […]
Election Result: Corsica territorial election 2017
Corsica’s nationalists scored an emphatic victory in the second and decisive round of voting for the new Assemblée de Corse yesterday. With 56 per cent of the votes won, Giles Simeoni’s pragmatic alliance of autonomistes and indépendentistes will have an absolute majority of seats in the new body, which replaces two departmental councils and a […]
Election result: Sicily regional election 2017
Italy’s resurgent centre-right, powered by Forza Italia, won a clear victory in Sunday’s regional election in Sicily. Nello Musumeci, the candidate of a diverse alliance of right-wing and centrist forces, finished five percentage points clear of his Five Star rival Giancarlo Cancelleri in the race for the regional Presidency, winning nearly 40 per cent of […]
Election result: Slovakia regional elections 2017
While international press coverage of yesterday’s Slovak regional election focussed mainly on the defeat of the right-wing extremist L’SNS, the bigger picture was one of heavy losses for the nationally-ruling Social Democrats of SMER-SD. The party of Prime Minister Robert Fico lost four of its six regional Presidencies to the centre-right opposition – the combined […]